Unit 3 Plate Tectonics

One of the seven great divisions of land on the globe

• country

• continent

• land division

• crust

The hypothesis that all continents were once connected in a single large landmass...

• plate tectonics

• Pangaea theory

• Wegner's Law

• continental drift

Who proposed the theory of continental drift?

• Alfred Wegner

• Isaac Newton

• Allen Washington

• Johannes Kepler

Large, ancient landmass that was composed of all continents joined together

• Super continent

• Volcano City

• Parahelion

• Pangaea

What type of plate boundary is this?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• regular

What type of plate boundary is this?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• regular

What type of plate boundary is this?

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• regular

Which number represents the lithosphere?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Which layer contains the asthenosphere?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Which layer is rigid and solid?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4